we begin, as we do, every night, keeping them honest. keeping government accountable. tonight we're going to show you you a place it's so horrific, it's hard to believe it exists. it's a modern-day concentration camp. a network of prisons that houses

men, women and children. this concentration camp is in north korea, a country that is right now publicly celebrating the launch of a missile, a missile that has much of the media talking. >> after four successful failures, north korea shocked the world with this successful launch, with rockets powerful enough to reach our shores. >> these images showed people celebrating in north korea. tonight, a u.s. official tells cnn, there are early signs the koreans are not in total control of the device. but a north korean-government run tv, the news anchor was giddy with excitement. keeping them honest. pyongyang reportedly spent more than $1 billion on their missile program this year alone, money

they could feed a lot of hungry, starving people in north korea. but while much of the world is talk about missiles tonight, there is a crime against humanity occurring in that country. a crime that receives very little attention. as i said, some 150,000 people are believed to be doing hard labor on the brink of starvation, in a network of hidd hidden gulags. the prisons house their entire families. grandparents, parents, children. it's a system called three generations of punishment. imagine if you were accused of a crime and sent to a concentration camp. but to truly punish you, they would send your parents and your children. three generations of your family simply disappeared. the most notorious is camp 14. we know about it because of a man shin don young. he not only escaped from camp 14. but he was actually born there. he's believed to be the only

person born and raised in the camps who has ever escaped and lived to tell about it. did anybody ever explain to you why you were in a camp? >> translator: no, never. because i was born there, i just thought those people who carry guns were born to carry guns. and prisoners, like me, were born as prisoners. >> did you know america existed? >> translator: not at all. >> did you know that the world was round? >> translator: i had no idea if it was round or square. >> camp 14 was all that he says he knew for the first 23 years of his life. these satellite images are the only glimpse outsiders have ever gotten of the place. 15,000 people are believed to be imprisoned here, forced to live and work in this bleak collection of houses, factories, fields and mines, surrounded by an electrified fence. growing up, did you ever think about escaping? >> translator: that never

crossed my mind. >> never crossed your mind? >> translator: no, never. what i thought was the society outside the camp would be similar to that inside the camp. >> you thought everybody lived in a prison camp like this? >> translator: yes. >> he told us this is the house where he was born. his mother and father were prisoners, whose marriage, if you could call it that, was arranged by the guards, as a reward for hard work. did they live together? did they see each other every day? >> translator: no. you can't live together. my mother and my father were separated. and only when they worked hard could they be together. >> did they love each other? >> translator: i don't know. in my eyes, we were not a family. we were just prisoners. >> how do you mean? >> translator: you wear what you're given. you eat what you're given. and you only do what you're told to do. so, there's nothing that the parents can do for you. and there's nothing that the children can do for their parents. >> this may be a very dumb question.

but did you even know what love was when you were -- for the first 23 years of your life? >> translator: i still don't know what that means. >> love may have been absent. but fear was not. in this building, a school of sorts, shin says he watched his teacher beat a little girl to death for hoarding a few kernels of corn. a violation of prison rules, that he and other students were required to learn. >> translator: if you escaped, you would be shot. if you tried to escape, or tried to escape, you would be shot. if you did not report someone who was trying to escape, you would be shot. >> the shootings took place in this field, he says. the other prisoners were required to watch. shin considered them a break from the monotony of hard labor and constant hunger. prisoners were fed the same, thin gruel of corn meal and cabbage, day in and day out. they were so hungry, shin says,

they ate rats and insects to survival. for 23 years, you were always hungry? >> translator: yes, of course. we were always hungry. and the guards always told us, through hunger, you will repent. >> what shin and his family were repenting for probably dates back to the korean war, when two of his uncles reportedly defected to the south. shin believes that's why his father and grandfather were sent to camp 14. and why he was supposed to live there until he died. north korea's first dictator, kim ill song, issued this practice in the 1950s. >> the idea is to eliminate this lineage. to eliminate the family on the theory that if the grandfather was a counterrevolutionary, the father and the grandsons would be opposed to the regime, as well. >> david hawk is a human rights investigator whose interviewed

dozens of former prisoners and guards from the six political prison camps operating in north korea today. >> the largest number of people in the prison camps are those who are the children or grandchildren of people considered to be wrong doers or wrong thinkers. >> i've never heard of anything like that. >> it's unique in the 20th or 21st century. mao didn't do it. stalin didn't do it. hitler tried to exterminate entire families. but in the post-world war ii world, it's only korea that had this practice. >> reporter: north korea denies it has any political prisons. but refuses to allow outside observers to inspect camp 14 and other sites. there's no way to verify all the details of shin's story. do you believe his story? >> oh, sure. his story is consistent with the testimony of other prisoners, in every respect.

>> there's also physical evidence he carries around with him to this day. the tip of his finger is missing. he says, it was chopped off as punishment when he accidentally broke a machine in a prison factory. he also has serious scars on his back, stomach and ankles, which he was willing to show us, but embarrassed to show on camera. he says he received those wounds here in an underground torture center. he was tortured because his mother and older brother were accused of trying to escape. he was just 13 years old at the time. did they think that you were involved in the escape? >> translator: i'm sure they did. >> how did they torture you? >> translator: they hung my by the ankles. and they tortured me with fire. and from the scars that i have, the wounds on my body, i think they couldn't have done more to me. >> he tries to convince his interrogators he wasn't part of

the escape plot. he didn't knowf they believed him until one day when they took him to that field used for executions. >> translator: when i went to the public execution site, i thought that i might be killed. i was brought to the very front. that's where i saw my mother and my brother being dragged out. and that's when i knew that it wasn't me. >> how did they kill your mother? >> translator: they hung her. and they shot my brother. >> he speaks of it still without visible emotion. and admits he felt no sadness watching his mother and brother die. he thought they got what they deserved. they had, after all, broken the prison rules. >> he believed the rules of the camp, like gospel. >> blaine harden is a veteran correspondent, who first reported shin's story in "the washington post" and later wrote a book about his life. he had no compass to judge his

behavior. >> he had a compass, but the compass were the rules of the camp. and it was only when he was 23, when he met somebody from the outside, that that started to change. >> when he met park. park was a prisoner that he met in camp 14 east textile factory. he had seen the outside world. he lived in pyongyang and traveled in china. he begin to tell shin what life was like on the other side of the fence. >> translator: i paid most attention to what kind of food he ate outside the camp. >> what kind of food had he eaten? >> translator: a lot of things. chicken, barbecue pig. the most important thing was the thought that even a prisoner like me could eat chicken and pork, if i were able to escape the barbed wires. >> i heard people define freedoms in many ways. i never heard someone define it as broiled chicken. >> translator: i still think of freedom in that way. >> really?

that's what freedom means to you? >> translator: people can eat what they want. it can be the greatest gift from god. >> you were ready to die, just to get a good meal? >> translator: yes. >> he got his chance in january 2005, when he says he and park were gathering firewood in this remote area near the electrified fence. as the sun began to set, they decided to make a run for it. >> as they ran towards the fence, shin slipped in the snow. it was a snowy ridge. fell on his face. park got to the fence first. and thrust his body between the first and second strand. pulled down that bottom wire. and was immediately electrocuted. >> how did you get past him? >> translator: i crawled over his back. >> you literally climbed over him. >> yeah. >> he's a fugitive now, in rural north korea. on the run in one of the poorest, most repressive countries in the world. but that's not how it seemed to him. what did the outside look like? >> translator: it was like

heaven. people were laughing and talking as they wanted. they were wearing what they wanted. it was very shocking. >> how did you manage to get out of north korea? >> translator: i was just trying to get away from the camp. and i ended up going north. and on the northern side, people talked a lot about china. >> did you know where china was? >> translator: no. not at all. it just happened that the way i was going was toward the border. >> with amazing luck and cunning, shin managed to steal and bribe his way across the border. and quietly work his way through china, where he would have been sent back, if he was caught. in shanghai, he snuck into the south korean consulate and was granted asylum. in 2006, he arrived in south korea, with not a friend in the world. he was so overwhelmed by culture shock and posttraumatic stress, he had to be hospitalized. more than seven years later, it's remarkable how far shin's come.

he's 30 now. has friends and built a new life for himself in seoul, south korea. but old demons from camp 14 are never far behind. and shin now admits there was something he was hiding. two years ago, he finally confessed to author blaine harden. >> when he first told me about the execution of his mother and brother, he didn't say that he had turned them in. >> you reported your mother and your brother? >> translator: yes. >> what did you hope to get out of reporting your mother and your brother? >> translator: being full for the first time. >> more food? >> translator: yes. but the biggest reason was, i was supposed to report it. >> why was shin tortured after ratting out his mother and brother? >> the guard who he ratted out to did not tell his superiors that he got the information from shin. >> so, the guard was trying to claim credit?

>> yes. >> it was only after seeing what family life was like outside camp 14 that shin says he started to feel guilt about what he had done to his own mother and brother. >> translator: my mother and brother, if i could meet them through a time machine, i would like to go back and apologize. by telling this story, i think i can compensate, kind of repent for what i did. >> repentance has taken shin all over the world. he speaks at human rights rallies, meets with u.s. congressmen, and is telling his story to us, in part, because he's frustrated by how much attention the press pays to north korea's new leader, kim jong-un and his wife. and how little attention gets paid to the people in the camps. in south korea, he and friends started a talk show to tell the world what's really going on in

the north. as for the taste of freedom he risked his life for, he can eat all the broiled chicken he wants now. but admits it hadn't given him the satisfaction he hoped for. >> translator: when i eat something good or laugh with friends, i'm excited. but that's only momentary. and in moments, i worry again. >> you worry about what now? >> translator: what i worry about are the people in the prison camps. children are still being born there. and somebody's probably being executed. >> do you think about that a lot? >> yeah. >> the world focuses on the north korean missile launch, tonight, we think of all those still in camp 14 and the other prison camps in north korea. let us know what you think. follow me at twitte twitter @andersoncooper. up next, the shooting in the oregon mall. and what turned a 22-year-old what a masked killer?

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welcome back. we're learning more about the shooting rampage at a shopping mall outside portland, oregon. before we bring you the latest on the killer and the crime, i want to take a moment and recognize the two people who lost their lives. cindy ann yuille and matthew forsyth. he was 54 years old, had two children. coached youth children and had a zest for life. a third victim, 15-year-old kristina shevchenko is recovering. she may need more surgeries to fully heal. she and cindy and matthew were shot last evening, at the clackamas town center, by this young man. police say he was acting alone and took his own life as police arrived on the scene. >> during this attack, he was armed with an ar-15 semiautomatic rifle. the rifle was stolen yesterday

from a person known to the suspect. at the time of the attack, he was wearing a load-bearing vest, not a bulletproof vest as earlier reported by some outlets. he was also wearing a hockey-style face mask. and we have not yet been able to establish how many shots were fired during the attack, although we believe he was carrying several fully loaded magazines. >> a friend of the killer tells cnn he can't believe he did this. a friend of his mother, meantime, gave the following letter to a local tv station. it reads, quote, tami roberts wishes to express her shock and grief at the events at clackamas town center on tuesday. she has no explanation for her son's behavior and requests that her privacy be respected. more now for a search for a motive and a search for answers. >> anybody standing behind us, they're going to have problems. >> reporter: housemates of jacob

taylor rob taylor roberts avoided our questions. not willing to talk about what might have led roberts to open fire on holiday shoppers. >> yeah. i've seen him there. >> reporter: neighbors say the 22-year-old moved in about six months ago, renting the basement of this portland house. bobbi bates last saw him yesterday when he left at 1:30 in the afternoon. >> he just came out. and he didn't wave or anything. came out with a guitar case in the car. >> reporter: two hours later, the 911 calls were coming in from the clackamas town center. roberts, wearing a hockey mask and firing a stolen ar-15 semiautomatic rifle was making his way through the mall. >> all i heard is, i am the shooter. and then shots rang out. five or six shots. and i just ran out. i started telling anyone and everyone i saw, there's a shooting going on. don't go in there. >> reporter: police say the only reason he didn't kill more people, his rifle jammed. he had several fully loaded magazines.

officers back at roberts' house are still trying to piece together what caused this man to fire into crowds of people before killing himself. >> at this time, we do not understand the motive of this attack except to say that there's no apparent relationship between the suspect and his victims. >> my son did grow up with jake. and i can tell you he was a very good boy and it's very shocking. >> reporter: family friends say there was no warning signs. there was this, perhaps, a gun fascination on his facebook page. it shows a man firing a handgun. had he been a popular boy at his high school and loved by his mother, who shared this statement, read by a friend. >> she is very sad and wants everyone to know that she's so sorry what jake did. it's so out of his character. >> when you consider the weapon that he was carrying, it's kind

of amazing he didn't kill more people. the gun jammed but how was he able to kill himself? >> reporter: it's a little bit of a miracle. and the police will point out they don't know how this happened. the gun did jam. and it jammed early on in the food court. the suspect, then, started to run. it was during that process that police say for some reason the gun unjammed. and so, that's when the is suspect took his own life after he had run away from the crowd in the food court. but that gun jamming, anderson, police say they just call that a miracle. >> and we've been hearing a lot of stories of people who helped other people in the midst of all this incredibly frightening situation. >> reporter: absolutely. the police say what really shows up here for them isn't the damage that this suspect did. they say they want to focus on all the people who chipped in to help each other. first of all, all the 10,000 people inside the mall, they stayed calm. they helped each other. there was a doctor in that crowd.

there were nurses. they immediately started treating people on the ground. and they say, police say, they hope that's something they learn from all of this. >> yes, one of the witnesses went towards a woman who was wounded and ultimately killed. and a nurse showed up. appreciate your reporting on that. have scientists discovered how being gay or lesbian is passed from parents to their children? a new study has claimed to find a possible explanation. we'll talk to dr. drew pinsky about that. having you ship my gifts couldn't be easier.

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for a long time, scientists have asked if being gay is genetic. no one has identified a gay gene, so to speak.

but now, a group of researchers have discovered how it may be passed from parent to child. not through genes themselves. but what is called epi marks. or epi jet nicks. the new study claims that epi marks may be passed down between generations. it's complicated and it's a controversial theory that hasn't been tested on people. researchers used a mathematical model. and it certainly raises a lot of questions. dr. drew joins me now. epi genetics, epi marks, what are they? >> it's really where the rubber hits the road in genetics these days. everyone is aware that dna is where the genetic code is laid down. but how the code is transcribed is really what epi genetics is all about. consider a sentence. if you have a sentence and you just pick up in the middle of that sentence randomly and try to understand that sentence or manage the meaning of that sentence, can be severely altered. the same is true of the genetic code.

where and how the code is transcribed is very much involved in how the codes are expressed in the cells. in this particular case, what they are seeing is that there appears to be something that affects -- creates a resistance the effects of testosterone in some males can pass from the mother to the boy and similarly from dads to daughters. >> so, they are saying it's not father to son but father to daughter, mother to son? >> exactly. what they are saying is that in females, there's a lot of -- in the uterus when we're developing changes of testosterone that we're exposed to. we're exposed to and they are saying that there has to be an epi that limits the testosterone on a female. that's a phenomenon that can be, in some cases, passed from the female, from mom to son. and similarly, in the dads, there has to be a genetic mechanism that allows the

testosterone to have full effect, that can perhaps go to girls, as well. where it gets a bit of a stretch is, what they're saying is, perhaps moms factors doesn't allow a son to masculinize. and that dad's factors over masculinize in the female. for me, that's the greatest assumption and stretch in this theory. >> at this point, it is a theory. this is based on mathematics more than science, right? >> that's exactly right. and science is very fearful of going forward and studying is getting to the politicization of is homosexuality genetic or not. when you study every human behavior, there's a component from genetic and a component from environment. there's biological components here. an it's incumbent upon science to really nail down what the mechanisms are. >> one question about the genetic thing, if it was purely

genetics, some scientists say it would die out over time because gay people -- i guess, in large numbers, have not been procreating. and therefore, passing, if there is a gay gene, passing it down. but if it's these epi marks, that would explain how it is passed from generation to generation. is that right? >> that's exactly right. right. that's one of the theories as to why these genetic elements or these biological elements have not died out in the human population over millions of years. in fact, they've stayed quite steady. if it were purely genetics, the genes don't get passed along. but the epi genetic mechanisms do not passed along. >> fascinating. it started as a relaxing trip to ride the waves in costa rica. but it ended with a former marine in a mexican prison. he's been there since august. and there's questions about why he was arrested. his parents are pleading for his

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tonight, new information about a former u.s. marine who's been in prison in mexico since august. his name is johnny hammar. he's 27 years old. and until recently, the story hasn't been known outside his immediate family. now, his parents are speaking out. you're going to hear from them in a moment when i interview them. their son's story is finally getting the kind of traction that his family hopes will bring him home. senator bill nelson brought his plight to the senate floor yesterday. >> bring this marine home, mexican government. and now that you have a new

president just installed in mexico, the relations with the united states are especially important to treat the united states' citizens who are peaceful in their intent, innocent in their observation of the mexican laws, where no harm has been done. send that u.s. marine back to america and back to his family in miami. >> senator nelson spoke for nearly six minutes vowing to keep pressing for hammar's release. so, how did he end up in prison to begin with? the deeper we dig the story gets stranger and stranger. like many other veterans of iraq and afghanistan, johnny hammar has suffered with posttraumatic stress disorder. he finds peace riding waves. after completing a ptsd treatment program last summer, he set off to go on a surfing trip to costa rica. and that's when his life took a terrifying turn.

here's gary tuchman. >> reporter: johnny hammar is an american war veteran. he was a marine, serving in infantry in afghanistan and iraq. he decided to drive with a fellow marine in a winnebago all the way through mexico to costa reek rico, for a surfing vacation. >> he had been there before and served. they took every single decent board that he had. >> reporter: he knew it was mexico but he wasn't planning on staying in mexico? >> no. the only reason they were going to stowas to get more gas. >> reporter: his parents were concerned when he said he wanted to bring antique shotgun that his great grandfather once owned. one this looks just like this. his parents said he wanted to be able to hunt with it. he got the proper forms from u.s. border agents to declare it. but once he did declare it, the nightmare began. how far was he from the united states of america when he was arrested? >> he was on the border. he was crossing the border.

>> reporter: so, he was a few feet away from america? >> or less. >> reporter: his friend was released. but johnny was brought to this jail charged with violating the strict gun laws. the jail is controlled by drug cartel members. a few nights after he was imprisoned, his parents got a call from someone threatening to kill their son unless the parents paid money. >> so, then he said, i have your son. and he said i'm going to "f" him up. and he said and i already have. and for some stupid reason my response was oh, no, i'm going to call the consulate. and he put johnny on the phone. and i couldn't believe it. and then i realized, i was like, oh, my god. and i really thought he wasn't in the prison. i thought someone's taken him out of the prison because i just couldn't conceive of this going

on in a government facility. >> reporter: what did johnny tell you? >> he said, mom, you need to do whatever they say. and he said, they are really serious. >> reporter: the hammars never heard from the callers again. although the u.s. consulate has heard from this from the beginning, they kept the story out of the press scared that attention could be bad for their son. but increasingly desperate, they are speaking out now. >> the longer we go on with him in there, the greater chance that he's not going to get out alive. >> reporter: the congresswoman heads up the house committee on foreign affairs. the family has just informed her about this. >> this is outrageous. and i'm asking for the state department to be more proactive. i have communicated with them. i've communicated with our u.s. ambassador in mexico. this week, i meet with the mexican ambassador to the united states. and enough is enough. >> reporter: their son had looked forward to a surfing vacation.

now, he's past the four-month mark in a mexican prison. he talked to his parents on the phone friday. >> i said, johnny, we're going to get you out. and he said, mom, you've been telling me that since august. >> gary, you went to the u.s. consulate in mexico not far from the prison where johnny hammar is being held. what are officials saying about the situation? >> reporter: well, first, we should point out, anderson, johnny's parents don't think the consulate is doing a particularly good job. they did get him out of the general inmate population which is considered safer. but they think the consulate has been surprisingly indifferent. we're on the texas side of the border. the rio grand is behind me. two miles is the consulate. right now it's not particularly safe for us to do live reporting in mexico. but a couple hours we were there in daylight. it's a heavily fortified building. there's an armed guard outside. there are large walls and gates. i talked to the boss there, the

consul general. and the consul general told me when i asked him questions about what the parents were saying, that he was unable to get clearance from washington to talk to us. so, we needed to talk to the state department from washington to find out what the consulate was doing. they gave us this statement. the consulate is following mr. hammar's case closely as it proceeds through the mexican judicial system. we are in constant contact with the family and we will continue to monitor his safety throughout the detention. members of the consulate have seen him, anderson, in prison, three times. but the fact is, four months, johnny hammar is still there. he presented the gun at the border checkpoint right behind me and now he's in jail for four months. >> gary tuchman, thank you. his parents have are been afraid to go public with their son's story. they are speaking out with urgency. they want you to know about him. you can imagine how awful the last several months have been for them. i spoke to olivia and jon hammar earlier. i can't imagine what this has

been like for you and your family. how are you holding up? >> just trying to take it one day at a time and praying that this exposure helps get him home. >> and, jon, you actually went down to visit your son. what are the conditions like that -- where he's held? >> they are horrible. third-world facilities. and it's not, you know, a secure facility either. and, you know, the road out there from town is -- you know, has problems daily. i was not authorized to go out there by the state department. i had to go on my own. >> i read you or olivia say that you believe he's actually being chained to a bed at times? >> yes. you know, it's not a very secure situation that he's in because

the state department got him isolated from the main facilities that is run by the cartel. but the area that he's in isn't really a facility for housing a prisoner. it's a -- you know, a makeshift closet storage area, next to guard offices. and so, you know, i suspect to give them some relief every now and then the guards will chain him to the bed because they feel like there's this guy over here. and he could run away and we'll get in trouble. and then the consulate will go out there and tell them, no, you can't do that, every month or so. but it's a back and forth contest. >> you said the cartel is running the prison. you mean a drug cartel is running the prison that your son is in? >> the main part of the prison, 90% of the prison where the actual prisoners are, the

facilities, you know, is -- once you get in those doors, the cartel controls it. or seems to because we get calls -- you know, from inside the prison saying, you know, this is not about the police. this is about us. and this is our house and if you don't do -- send money, we're going to kill your son. here's your son on the phone. >> so, you're saying people from the prison are actually calling you extorting money, trying to extort money from you? >> in august that's how this started. that was our first phone call on this. >> how much money did they want? >> they asked for $1,800. we said, we'll send it, tell us how. and they said, we'll call you back with a western union account number. and so when they hung up, we called the state department. >> and at some point the calls stopped. but it took us about three days for the consulate to be able to get back out there and confirm

that he had been isolated. >> and, olivia, you say that the mexican military sent a particular letter to the judge and the prosecutor. what was the letter and did it have any impact? >> the letter essentially -- because the crime that he's charged with is possession of a weapon restricted for military use. so, the marino de mexico, which is an arm of the military in mexico, sent a letter to the judge and the prosecutor saying that this particular weapon is not on their, quote, forbidden list. and they have just declined to, you know, give that any weight. >> jon, what are you hoping mexican officials will do? what do you want them to do? >> i'm appealing to the mexican government to put pressure through the trial court to come to some reasonable conclusion that we can get our son home and alive after, you know, he's been

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